Google Is Backing a New $300 Million High-Speed Internet Trans-Pacific Cable

An anonymous reader writes Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called "FASTER." In addition to Google, the $300 million project will be jointly managed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, and SingTel, with NEC as the system supplier. FASTER will feature the latest high-quality 6-fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies. The initial design capacity is expected to be 60Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 6 fiber-pairs), connecting the US with two locations in Japan.

Re:Finally some Asian LPBs

[iggymanz]

they can do worse than making us a nice fat pipe for quality anime and JAV

Slight problem

[Andurian]

60Tb/s is fine for me, but what about the other people who want to use it?

Beta?

[RussR42]

The cable will never leave beta and then be discontinued in a year.

Re:So which agencies' backdoors are in there?

[ArcadeMan]

I practically got a proctological exam just crossing over into Canada this summer.

Free medical checkups are one good reason to live in Canada.